Word: rival
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Pennington told the CRIMSON that he had resigned his position as a teaching fellow at the University and indicated that he will accept an appointment as an instructor at a rival institution next fall...
...Grand National stock car race (distance: 500 miles) included such daredevils as Glenn ("Fireball") Roberts, Paul Goldsmith and Len Sutton. But in prerace speed trials, Gurney maneuvered his hopped-up 1963 Ford around the twisting, 2.7-mile circuit at a record clip of 99.5 m.p.h.. and rival drivers tabbed him as the man to beat. "If his machine can take the punishment," said Joe Weatherly, the 1962 U.S. stock car champion, "there'll be a lot of us chasing...
...Common Market, and 2) France had no interest in the U.S. proposal for a European nuclear force. De Gaulle recalled Britain's refusal to participate in the Common Market when it was abuilding, and charged that London had even tried to destroy the organization by setting up the rival Outer Seven. With obvious relish, De Gaulle explained why he thought Britain was unfit for partnership...
...record book lists 86 players who have scored more than 50 points in one game, and 57 of them are named Wilt Chamberlain. "Wilt has that something that separates the great from the near great," says the Boston Celtics' Bill Russell, Chamberlain's good friend and bitterest rival. "It's a sort of anticipation. You never know what he's going to do, but you know it's going to be out of the ordinary. The important thing about him is his originality. Nobody ever played basketball the way Wilt Chamberlain does...
...sports," says Captain Bob Starnes of the University of Illinois' basketball team, "it only takes one shot or one play to make you a hero or a bum." Starnes should know. Last week, when the No.3-ranked Illini took the floor against home-state rival Northwestern, they were solid favorites on the strength of eleven victories, only one loss (to Notre Dame, 90-88). On its sorry record (three wins, eight losses), Northwestern did not belong on the same floor. But by half time, relying on a collapsing zone defense that stalled Illinois' fast break, Northwestern...